The Beatles - Goodnight Vienna 1974

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         We made it to the Beatles in 1974. John Lennon released Walls and Bridges, which I think is one of his best, George Harrison released Dark Horse and Ringo Starr had Goodnight Vienna. Since I used Red Rose Speedway (which was released early 1973) this uses Paul McCartney's Band on the Run (came out the end of 1973). There was so much good music from the four of them I decided to make this a double album. From Paul I pulled "Band on the Run", "Jet", "Bluebird", "Mrs. Vanderbilt", "Let Me Roll It", "No Words" (which ironically has words), and "Helen Wheels". John gives us "Going Down on Love", "Whatever Gets You Through the Night", "Old Dirt Road", "What You Got", "Scared", "#9 Dream" "Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox)" (which references the Beatles song "Drive My Car") and "Beef Jerky" (which has no words). George's contributions are "Simply Shady" (which mentions "Sexy Sadie), "Hari's on Tour (Express)" (which doesn't have words) and "Dark Horse". From Ringo's album I wanted to stick with songs by him or another Beatle, I chose "All By Myself" which Starr wrote with Vini Poncia (with Lennon on guitar), "Goodnight Vienna" and its reprise, which have Lennon on piano and spoken intro. I went through may iterations of this but decided to make a version that would fit on one CD for those of you who are making copies for yourself.
     My alternate Earth idea is that after doing the theme for "Live and Let Die", Paul had the idea of doing an album that would be a soundtrack for a Beatles film. The plot would be that they play a band touring around the world when they get mistaken for jewel thieves and have to go on the run from the law. Paul thought it should be called Band on the Run but Ringo came up with Goodnight Vienna. Ringo liked the idea of making a movie, but George and John weren't into it.

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